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Asico

Ophthalmic surgical instruments

Quantity Surveyor - Landscaping

Business OperationsConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeDubai - United Arab EmiratesNo salary listed

About the Job

Requirements

  • A bachelor's degree in Quantity Surveying, Civil Engineering, Construction Management, or a related field is required.
  • Five to eight years of experience as a quantity surveyor, including at least three years in the UAE.
  • A proven record pricing landscape tenders and producing monthly payment applications and certificates is required.
  • Working knowledge of hardscape and softscape items, irrigation systems, and plant sourcing, including typical UAE supplier rates, is required.
  • Strong command of measurement methods, bill of quantities preparation, and rate analysis is required.
  • Sound understanding of FIDIC-based and standard UAE subcontract conditions, including variations, retention, advance payment, and time-bar notices, is required.
  • Advanced Excel skills, including formulas, lookups, and pivot tables, are required.
  • Ability to read landscape, architectural, and irrigation drawings and detect quantity differences between revisions is required.
  • Clear written English is required.
  • Confident negotiation with suppliers, subcontractors, and client representatives is required.

Responsibilities

  • Review tender documents, drawings, specifications, and bills of quantities; identify scope gaps, exclusions, and risks before pricing.
  • Carry out quantity takeoffs for hardscape works, including paving, kerbs, retaining walls, water features, pergolas, furniture, lighting, and irrigation, and softscape works, including trees, palms, shrubs, groundcover, turf, soil, mulch, and irrigation.
  • Build and maintain a current rate database for materials, plants, labour, plant and equipment, and subcontract packages.
  • Request, follow up on, and compare supplier and subcontractor quotations; prepare written price comparisons for approval.
  • Price installation works and recurring maintenance scopes, including manpower, consumables, replacement planting, and seasonal adjustments.
  • Prepare tender pricing summaries, preliminaries, overheads, margin, and risk allowances for management review.
  • Compile commercial submissions, including priced bills of quantities, clarifications, qualifications, programme inputs, and bond or insurance requirements.
  • Track bid status, win or loss reasons, and actual rates achieved to improve future pricing.
  • Prepare post-tender negotiation positions and value-engineering options.
  • Prepare interim and final payment applications to clients and main contractors, and certify payments due to subcontractors and suppliers.
  • Prepare monthly interim client payment applications from measured site progress, supported by quantities, measurement sheets, photos, and approved inspection requests.
  • Reconcile applications against the contract bill of quantities, approved variations, materials on site, advance payment recovery, and retention.
  • Apply contract terms for retention and its release, advance payment, applicable UAE value-added tax, back charges, and liquidated damages.
  • Submit applications within contract cut-off dates; follow up on consultant and client valuations and resolve differences.
  • Maintain a payment tracker of amounts applied for, certified, invoiced, received, and outstanding.
  • Measure and value subcontractor work and prepare payment certificates net of retention, advances, recoveries, and back charges.
  • Check supplier invoices against purchase orders and delivery notes before payment approval.
  • Maintain subcontractor ledgers and agreed final account positions.
  • Set up project budgets from the winning tender and report monthly cost against budget, forecast final cost, and margin.
  • Prepare and negotiate variation claims, extension-of-time cost impacts, and notices, supported by measured records and rate justification.
  • Support procurement through purchase orders, subcontract packages, and long-lead items such as trees and imported plants.
  • Maintain contract records, including correspondence, instructions, daily and weekly progress records, and drawing revisions affecting quantities.
  • Prepare final accounts, completion and handover cost statements, and release of retention and defects liability.
  • Support maintenance contracts with scope schedules, monthly billing, and annual rate reviews.

Desired Qualifications

  • Landscaping, external works, or infrastructure package experience is preferred.
  • Membership or progress toward RICS, or equivalent professional recognition, is preferred.
  • A valid UAE driving licence and ability to visit sites are preferred.
  • Experience with a costing or quantity-surveying package such as CostX or Bluebeam is an advantage.
  • Arabic is an advantage.

About the Company

Asico

Ophthalmic surgical instruments

Asico is a ophthalmic instrument company. It designs, manufactures, and distributes specialized surgical instruments used by ophthalmic clinicians and care teams. Its products support eye surgeons, clinics, hospitals, and distributors involved in cataract, corneal, retinal, and other ophthalmic procedures. The company combines instrument design and engineering with manufacturing, quality and regulatory work, inventory, sales, customer service, and business operations. Work spans engineering, manufacturing, quality, regulatory, inventory, sales, customer support, and administration.

Company size
11-50
Company stage
Not listed
Total funding
Not listed
Headquarters
Westmont, CA
Founded
1983

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